Re: #1003 Message-ID text: Resolving

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <F6FC8E6D93DDBC8F88C5F58B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


>However, the text seems to have support as "better than what we have now".

Agreed.


> NEW:

> The Message-ID header contains a single unique message identifier.
> News is more dependent on msg-id uniqueness and fast comparision
>than
> email is, and some news software would have trouble with the full
>range
> of possible msg-ids permitted by RFC 2822;

I have already pointed out that it is more that "some" news software. It
is also the new NNTP standard-to-be.


> NEW:

> Some software will try to match the <id-right> of a msg-id in
> a case-insensitive fashion; some will match it in a case sensitive
> fashion. Implementations MUST NOT generate two message-IDs where
> the only difference is the case of characters in the <id-right> part.

> If domain literals are used, the syntax found in [RFC2821] section
> 4.1.3 is RECOMMENDED.

I think some people had a problem with that last sentence.

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